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Here comes the bill
Brides and grooms promise to take each other for richer, or for poorer.And when it comes to weddings these days in Michigan, it's definitely for poorer.
With layoffs looming, gas prices soaring and Michigan's stubbornly high jobless rate still outstripping the rest of the nation, Metro Detroit brides and grooms are marching down the aisle to the wedding-bill blues.
Wedding planner Jennifer Glass has noticed a decided drop in the amount of money couples will spend to get hitched.
One client even decided to postpone her wedding for two years because she couldn't afford it.
"With the economy the way it is, I've definitely seen a difference," Glass said.
As the wedding season swings into its busiest weeks the year, couples are cutting back on cakes, linens and more.
Resurrecting the 'F' word
The truer imperative is cultural; it involves the mystery of identity; and its logic insists on resurrecting the 'F' word. Federation.It's a word that makes no real - that is, emotional - sense until you've travelled among the islands. Yet, once you've done that, no other arrangement makes sense; not really, not ultimately. Before I first came here as a kid, eg, my knowledge of Jamaica was restricted to a ska concert given by Byron Lee and the Dragonaires in Port of Spain in the mid-60s, and two young Jamaican women whom, as a 20-year-old, I'd dated - serially - in Trinidad. (One was a pretty, chubby, 'browning' air hostess, the other, a lanky, chocolate-skinned, green-eyed, and mercilessly ironic young journalist who nonetheless, when six months later I came to Mona, arrived at Chancellor Hall and plucked me out of the horrors of Freshman's Week, doing so at considerable risk to her own domestic relationship, as she made sure to let me know.) But I have never forgotten that first view of the Blue Mountains, from the third floor balcony of Chancellor, and my commingled sense of wonder and.proprietorship.
Dates set for death reviews
Following last Thursday's sentence review of two of an expected 28 death row inmates, dates have been set for the remaining two of an initial four reviews by Senior Supreme Court Justice Anita Allen.The cases of Keith Jones and Ronald Simmons have been set for October 4 and 25, respectively, Francis Cumberbatch of the Office of the Attorney General said yesterday.
Simmons is on death row after being convicted of the October 16, 1997 death of police officer Perry McKellan Munroe in Mangrove Cay, Andros.
According to trial testimony, around 7:45 p.m. at the Fisherman's Club restaurant, owned by his uncle, Kelly Greene, Simmons and his cousin Robert Greene, who is also on death row for the same murder, fired three shots from a twelve-bore Maverick pump action shotgun.
Tourism needs 'new ideas'
Outgoing president of the Caribbean Hotel Association (CHA), St Lucian hotelier Berthia Parle, has urged tourism officials to keep upgrading performance levels in order for the Caribbean to truly attain world class status.Speaking at the opening of the four-day Caribbean Hotel Industry Conference (CHIC) at Hyatt Regency Hotel, in Miami, Parle said this was necessary to meet consumers' demand.
She told more than 900 delegates: "Consumers today demand an authentic Caribbean experience delivered by warm, caring, hospitable employees with the highest performance levels.
"As we all seek to promote the sustainability of our destinations, our products and services must also be of a sustainable nature. We must open our minds to new marketing ideas and communicating initiatives, to stepping out of our comfort zone and living up to our principles," said Ms Parle.
Keep watch on showers circulating in Caribbean
Keep an eye on the mess of showers and thunderstorms that was drifting from the Bahamas across Cuba and toward Florida on Wednesday.They are associated with an upper-level low that isn't really ripe for much development right now but could become so.
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A season of 'fresh' dining begins
Seasons 52, a dining concept by one of the largest restaurateurs in the United States, is about to make a noticeable entrance into the Atlanta market, with two high-profile locations.By fall, a Seasons 52 will open at Two Buckhead Plaza, a new building next to Buckhead Life Restaurant Group Inc.'s Nava in the Buckhead Village. And another restaurant will debut across from the hotel W Atlanta at Perimeter Center.
.Annual Summer Junkanoo Festival off to a good start
Hundreds of people flocked to the grand lawn near the International Bazaar and Ranfurly Circus last Thursday to experience the opening of the annual Summer Junkanoo Festival.Stretching out a vibrant agenda until August 3, the 'Junkanoo in the Street' festival is held every Thursday evening from 6 p.m. to 11 p.m. and features an amazing array of Grand Bahamian cuisine, arts and crafts and vendors bearing various treats, all geared toward enriching the Bahamian identity.
The Bahamian fete also accentuates cultural demonstrations such as sisal plaiting, conch cracking, Bahamian dance competitions and Bahamian fashions. Entertainers include Little Joe Cartwright, Dry Bread, Wilfred Solomon, Audley Edden, Priscilla Rollins, Mango Man and Methice Rigby who is being backed up by The Just Friends Band.
A Mighty Long Way
Amidst all the various tributes and acclamations - yes, even humour and dancing - worship, prayer and praise were the operative words.After months of planning and preparation, the 70th Anniversay celebrations of the new Annex Baptist Cathedral, founded in 1936, and now under the pastoral care of Apostle Mitchel E Jones, can be described as no less than a brilliant success.
"The absent are always in the wrong," according to an English proverb, and this would certainly seem to apply to anyone who missed the inspiring church service, including former Prime Minister Hubert Ingraham, who sent a written message of congratulations but did not show up or send a representative.
Fortunately, though, all who for whatever reason could not participate in the unique, spiritual and historical experience, were able to watch the proceedings on ZNS TV, compliments of the Broadcasting Corporation of The Bahamas, which simultaneously observed 70 years in operation.